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Caille was a student of Leon Cogniet and E. Castan. He eventually became a member of the Artistes Francais and began exhibiting in Paris in 1861 and in London, beginning in 1878.

Leon Caille was a genre painter who specialized in touching, sentimental scenes often depicting mothers and their children. Like Pierre-Edouard Frere and Theophile-Emmanuel Duverger, Caille painted an idealized rural life that was popular at the turn of the century, particularly with a growing number of urban dwellers who were already feeling nostalgia for the countryside. These paintings continue to appeal in today’s market for many of the same reasons.

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